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OK, seriously, we are told by Scripture not to neglect gathering together. Any ideas of a church or fellowship of like minded Christians? There are plenty of liberal denominations that are universalist but don't believe in the essentials I believe you believe. What are your plans?

From my reading, less than 1,000 Baptists adhere to this view. I was not aware there were any universalist outside of liberal mainline denominations. I guess the difference between the OP and this group (universalist Baptists) would be their belief that hell only exists in this life where, if...

There's several threads on this forum that he is the OP. Mostly post after post of long passages of scripture he highlights or enlarges particular words for emphasis with occasional commentary. They usually make no sense and, if they do, they are fringe SDA beliefs.

Most of time, nobody does. That's why few people bother to respond

The scriptures are not my objection. It's your judgemental, sanctimonious accusations of 'demonic, idolatrous' board members. A new member posted a picture you considered idolatrous and you became unhinged. Do you ever wonder why so few board members ever respond to your threads or posts...

You're the second person recently to suggest the seven sorrows rosary. Thank you.

This is why I began a daily prayer life which focuses heavily on the Psalms. I tried praying the full Daily Office but because of time constraints I have an abbreviated version saying Matins, Diurnum, Vespers and Compline. As a Baptist I used Our Daily Bread as guide for meditation. I suspect...

A great quote from a great apologist and convert to Catholicism!

That would mean Satan & the Demons too.

This idea that if everyone is saved, then it really cheapens the offer of salvation, the offer of grace that God gives us.

I have noticed Mur avoids using the term 'Universalism'. His belief is just that. I lived in Massachusetts for some time and it wasn't unusual to see churches that identified themselves as Universalists and even sometimes in parentheses would be the word 'Trinitarian'. Apparently not all...

You believe you are now a 'Bible believer'. The problem is that you hold to a belief that is sharply at odds with conservative evangelicalism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy To my knowledge, there's no such thing as a 'Bible believing' universalist church. Universalists identifying as Christians...

Actually highly probable other than those churches I listed in my above post. I understand what you are saying, I am not sure everyone responding to your posts on this and other threads realize you are a universalist.

Wouldn't you say your being a universalist is a pretty big doctrinal difference? Well, let me take that back. There are plenty of American Baptist, United Church of Christ, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Disciples of Christ churches that accept universalism. But many of them question...

Now you are trying to deflect from the subject of whether Catholic clergy would discourage their parishioners from reading scripture. What your pastor thinks priests do is irrelevant. And, why ask your pastor when you already have the Bible? Maybe your pastor discourages you from independent...

Oh, I think a simple phone call shouldn't be too hard

Here is an example of the extent evangelicals will go to in order to smear The Catholic Church: Jack Chick's Anti-catholic Alberto Comic Book Is Exposed as a Fraud https://www.christianitytoday.com/1981/03/jack-chicks-anti-catholic-alberto-comic-book-is-exposed-as/ About a 'priest' who claimed...

I challenge you to ask ANY priest or any Catholic clergy whether they discourage parishioners from reading the Bible. Most of the 'reformed' Catholics I have talked to know next to nothing about what the Church teaches or have ever attended a Bible study at their former parish. Most were...

I have been a Catholic for years now. I have known many priests. I never have been discouraged from reading the Bible by any Catholic clergy. Just the opposite so I don't buy it. Pure hocum. There was a member of the BB who stopped posting when I called him out. He claimed every Catholic...

Then take a closer look at the use of 'until" in scripture. The term “until” (Greek, heōs) commonly indicated a particular state existed to a certain point, as in “John worked at his desk until five o’clock.” The existing state often changes when the point is reached (thus, at five o’clock...